Yle Movies

The social contract: the rules we follow - and some don’t. Breaking Social uncovers the pattern of corruption and kleptocracy erasing the social tissu...

The second part of Hella Wuolijoki's family saga. Heta Niskavuori marries Akusti, a farmhand. Together, they build a magnificent house from a croft, a...

Arriving in Helsinki, a nameless man is beaten within an inch of his life by thugs, miraculously recovering only to find that he has completely lost h...

Irina Björklund plays Isabella, a priest who returns to her hometown, a small town in Ostrobothnia. However, her past does not leave her in peace. Fla...

Russian army recruits complete training and take their posting in late 1980s Afghanistan, where the insurgents are slowly gaining the upper hand.

Outcast by his co-workers and living alone, Koistinen is a security guard who works the night shift in a luxury shopping mall in Helsinki. But when ic...

Small-scale farmer Pasi shoots four policemen who have come to arrest him for raged drunkenness. Rest of the movie is a long flashback examining the e...

Based on real events that took place on the eastern border during the Winter War. One of the men stays behind in a deserted house during the war after...

A drama based on the lives of children and parents in a small farming family. Based on Esko Raennon's novel Tie.

The problems faced by a pensioner living on a low income in Finland in the late 1960s.

A group of Finns have won a cruise and this is how they behave on it.

Documentary about Soviet-born pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

A boy dreams to become like his ski jumping idol Jari Puikkonen. However, his parents are worried because he neglects the school. One day while going...

Summer night, fraying country idyll, motorcycle gang and a murder.

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father of...

Is love eternal? Or ideology? When erstwhile communists meet at a food course the result is quite the concoction.

What happens when functions of a business are intensified until there is nothing but intensifying?

The film is based on history of the Russian Military garrison in Sveaborg (Suomenlinna, near Helsinki) in Finland, which was an autonomous part of Rus...

Miriam Makeba was one of the first African musicians who won international stardom and whose music was always anchored in her traditional South Africa...

The owner of a remote gas station and a small time crook cross paths on one hot summer's day.